Our Team

ELEM is a spin-off from Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) where the technology Alya and the bio-simulation project was born.

Unique origins. Unique culture. Unique technology.

Mission
  • To transform medical innovation, preclinical and clinical testing, regulatory approval, and treatment decision to make medical testing work so everyone, everywhere can be well, able, and active for life.

Vision
  • To lead the technological revolution where virtual humans become the standard for in silico testing by deploying supercomputer-based Virtual Human platforms to model patients to improve health.

Our Team

We are a multi-disciplinary team, integrating disciplines from engineering to mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, and computer science.

Christopher Morton
CEO
Mariano Vázquez
CTO/CSO
Guillaume Houzeaux
Co-Founder
José María Cela
Co-founder
Romain Micol, MD
Board Member
Jo Pisani
Board Member
Roger Assaker
Board Member
Jazmin Aguado-Sierra
Lead Scientist
Constantine Butakoff
Lead Scientist
Ani Amar
Quality & Regulatory Officer
Jose María Pozo
Senior Scientist
Pablo González Martin
Biomedical Engineer
Paula Domínguez
Biomedical Engineer
Lucía De Pineda
Data & AI Engineer
Eva Casoni
Senior Scientist
Alberto Zingaro
Senior Scientist
Irmantas Burba
Senior Project Engineer
Verónica Montero Castillo
Legal & Compliance Lead
Bérengère Noël
Head of Sales
Ferran Giménez
Product & Engineering Manager
Arnau Masdevall
Platform Developer
Mauro Fontana
Platform Developer
Oriol Capó del Nido
Platform Developer
Caterina Balzotti
AI Scientist
Carmen Fuentes Parga
Project Management Officer
Luciana Marques
Head of Communication
Gaia Deliso
Digital Marketing Officer
Dimitrios Lialios
Scientist
Roberto Molina
Biomedical Engineer
Hadrien Calmet
Respiratory system
Beatriz Eguzkitza
Respiratory system
Oriol Lehmkuhl
Computational fluid dynamics. Respiratory System
Cristóbal Samaniego
Coupled multi-physics. Cardiac valves.
Juan Raul Cebral
Computational fluid dynamics. Vascular hemodynamics
Sol Bucalo
Design and UX
Fernando Cucchietti
Visualization and Data Processing
Guille Marín
Visualization
Gilbert Peffer
AI expert
Blanca Rodríguez
Cardiac Computational Modelling
Francesc Carreras Costa, MD
Cardiac Imaging and Function
Jose María Guerra Ramos, MD
Senior Scientist
David Filgueiras Rama, MD
Electrophysiology, Arrhythmia
Cristóbal Langdon, MD
Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
Paul Iaizzo
Translational Systems Physiology
Oscar Camara
Signal and image processing
Our Values
  • Collaboration

    We celebrate those who wish to collaborate, both within our team and in our partners and clients.

  • Transparency

    We are open and honest with our employees, partners, and investors. By being transparent we can harness the power of teamwork – all tackling the same problem together through excellent communication.

  • Determination

    We will bring this product to market while developing and validating relentlessly to achieve the outcomes we know will change millions of patients’ lives for the better.

  • Ambition

    We will expand the technology to reap the benefits from simulating multiple human organs, to grow our market through partnerships with clients who share our ambitious vision.



Our Story

In four milestones

2005

Alya Project
begins

Guillaume and Mariano started the Alya Project at the BSC, a recently created research center on supercomputing applications, hosting the fourth largest supercomputer on earth, MareNostrum I. One of the first application fields would be the cardiovascular system.

Alya team members: 4

2012

ELEM idea
conceived

BSC and Alya have become world references supercomputing applications. The Alya Red biomedical project is presented through a scientific video, awarded with the 2012 International Science Visualization challenge (link).

Alya team members: 15

2018

ELEM Biotech
created

ELEM becomes a spin-off from BSC, who transfers the technology and gives an exclusive commercial exploitation licence. ELEM's goal is to create our Virtual Humans platform to put all its power directly in the hands of the healthcare stakeholders.

Alya team members: 35

NOW

The Virtual Humans
rising

14 years later, 100 papers published, more than 400 million core hours of supercomputing power spent, and 5 million euros invested in development, Alya is the core technology of ELEM's Virtual Humans. BSC hosts the fourth upgrade of MareNostrum IV.

Alya team members: 40